Steinberg HALION4 Mode D'emploi page 164

The HALion Mixer
Level
The level fader allows you to adjust the volume of the bus. All busses allow an
amplification of +12 dB.
Pan
By default, in the stereo panorama, all stereo mixer channels provide a stereo panner
that allows you to define the position of the sound in the stereo field. When working
with surround busses, the stereo pan is disabled, but you can use a surround panner
to pan the stereo signals in the surround field. This can be achieved by adding a
Surround Panner to one of the insert slots. The mixer channel shows a small version of
the Surround Panner, which can be used to remote-control the inserted surround
panner. Additionally, the Surround Panner provides a level fader for the LFE channel.
For more detailed editing, use the Sound editor of the Surround Panner.
Meter
The meters of a mixer channel show the output level of the bus. Depending on the
number of audio channels of the bus, the number of meters is adapted accordingly.
Stereo busses have two channel meters, surround channels have six.
Peak Level
The peak level meter indicates the highest level on the bus in dB. To reset, click the
peak level.
Channel Label
By default, the channel label shows the name of the bus. Double-click the label to
enter a name.
Output
Each channel can be routed to various busses. Click the output pop-up menu and
select an output.
The output busses represent the audio interface to the host application or the audio
hardware. Therefore, these channels cannot be routed freely and do not have an
output pop-up menu.
You can route a surround slot bus to one of the stereo output busses. In this case only
the first two channels are connected. To make you aware that the number of channels
do not match, HALion displays a warning icon in the top of the mixer channels (slot
and output). You can decide whether to add a downmix effect to the output bus, to
reroute the slot to the surround output bus, or to leave it as it is.
Insert Effects
Each channel can load up to eight insert effects. To display the inserts, the channel
strip needs to be expanded.
Each insert can either be a classical insert effect like a chorus or a delay, or it can load
one of the 4 AUX send effects that allow you to send the signal to the AUX busses.
When an AUX send effect is loaded, the insert slot adds a small level fader below.
Use this fader to set the level that is send to the AUX bus.
You cannot use send effects on AUX and output busses.
Pre-Fader Send Effects
By default, send levels are influenced by the level of the bus. If you want to adjust the
send level independently from the bus level you can set the send to pre-fader. This
can be done by activating the corresponding button to the left of the level fader.
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